Montana State University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EELE482 -- Introduction to Electro-Optical Systems

 Fall 2018

EELE482 Fall 2016

 

Class meeting times:

  10:00-10:50   Monday and Wednesday, Lecture (section 001)

Lab meeting times:

  9:00-10:50 Tuesday (section 002)

  1:10 - 3:00 Tuesday (section 003)

All class and lab meetings will be in BARNAH 110.

The professor this term is David Dickensheets, [email protected], (406) 994-7874, 530 Cobleigh Hall.

    David's Office Hours are Tu 4:00-5:30pm or by appointment.

The TAs this term are Mahmoudreza Dadras and Owen Cruikshank.

    TA Office Hours are TBD

Grading this term is being handled by Nathan Field. Nathan's office is COBH 627.

Announcements

Welcome to EELE482! We will not have lab during the first week.

Handouts

Reading Assignments

To be completed prior to lecture on the indicated dates (Text is Fundamentals of Photonics, 2nd Ed., by Saleh and Teich, Wiley, 2007)

Week

Lecture Date

Reading Assignment

Topic

1

 

8/27

S&T 1.1

ray propagation, conic surfaces for refraction/reflection

8/29

S&T 1.2 (1.3 for interest)

sign conventions, ray tracing, spherical mirror, thin lens

2

9/5

S&T 1.4; ABCD Matrix handout

ABCD matrices and properties

3

9/10

S&T 2.1-2.2

Scalar wave fundamentals

9/12

S&T 2.4,2.5

Plane and spherical waves, interference, Mach-Zehnder interferometer

4

9/17

S&T 2.5

Interferometers

9/19

S&T 4.3 (4.1 and 4.2 for interest)

Diffraction: concepts and diffraction integral

5

9/24

 

Diffraction by slit and circle

9/26

S&T 3.1

Intro to Gaussian beams

6

10/1

Kogelnik and Li, "Laser Beams and Resonators"

Gaussian beam properties

10/3

S&T 3.2

Gaussian beams and lenses, properties of focused spot, ABCD law

7

10/8

S&T 6.1,

Polarization, Jones vectors & matrices

10/9 (1st lab due)

this is a tuesday

  

10/10

S&T 6.2

Fresnel Equations, polarizers

 

8

10/15

Midterm

  

10/17

S&T 6.4,6.6

  Polarizers, waveplates, isloators

9

10/22

S&T 6.3(for interest), 20.1

Electro-optic modulators; liquid crystal devices

10/24

S&T 19.1, 19.2

  Acousto-optic modulators

10

10/29

S&T 13.4, 13.5, Wilson & Hawkes handout (on D2L)

Light source characteristics

10/30 (2nd lab due)

this is a tuesday

 

10/31

S&T 11.1

  coherence concepts

11

 

11/5

S&T 17.1 (Ch. 16 for interest)

 LED physics and properties

11/7

LED Datasheet on webpage

LED datasheet; LD intro

12

11/12

no class - Veterans Day

 

11/14

S&T 17.3, LD Datasheet on webpage

LD spectral properties, beam properties

13

11/19

S&T 18.1-18.3

LD datasheet; Intro to detectors, Thermal detectors and photoelectric detectors

14

 

11/26

S&T 18.6

shot noise, pn-junction noise model, NEP

11/27 (3rd lab due)

this is a tuesday

  

11/28

 S&T 18.4

noise spectral properties, APD, PMT
15   

12/3

S&T 18.5

Imaging detectors: CCD, CMOS 

12/4 (tuesday)

Class Design Review Presentations and Papers

  

12/5

Last lecture period

  
 16

12/12 (8am Wednesday)

 Final Exam (8am-9:50am)

In BARNAH 110

Problem Sets

set #

Due Date

Problems

Solutions (please find solutions on D2L for course EELE_482_001_201770 )                  

HW1

9/5

S&T Problems 1.2-7, 1.2-8, 1.2-11

 

HW2

9/17

ABCD problem, S&T Problem 2.2-4,  Problem 1.4-9

 

HW3

9/24

Interferometers

 

HW4

10/1

S&T Exercise 2.4-1, Exercise 2.4-4

 

HW5

10/8

Gaussian Beams

 

HW6

10/22

Polarization 

 

HW7

10/31

modulators

 

HW8

11/7

sources

 

HW9

11/28

LED and LD datasheets

 

Laboratory

Links

http://www.meadowlark.com/catalog.php  (Meadowlark Optics Catalog - polarization devices)
http://www.ofr.com/Isolator/Polarizers_IO-3.htm
http://www.ofr.com/Isolator/Function_IO-2.htm (Faraday isolator page)
https://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=841265 (Detector characterization by folks at NIST)

This page is maintained by David Dickensheets .